Easter Shrinky Dink Gift Tags

Easter Shrinky Dink Gift Tags

How is it possible that it’s March already? I mean wasn’t it just yesterday we were ringing in the new year, drinking bubbles and falling asleep before the midnight fireworks….. (or was that just us)?… Anyhoo here we are in March and crazily, Easter is a mere 4 weeks away!

We’ve been feeling the itch to make something crafty using our favourite Shrinky Dinks since we made ourChristmas Charmsand thought why not create a little something special just for you while we are at it?.. We settled on these gift tags because 1. they are ridiculously cute 2. kids love getting involved with colouring in and watching as their designs shrinky (Dinky?) in the oven and 3. who doesn’t love a good Easter pun? Not us that’s for sure!

I mean, come on – can we have a moment for the cuteness?…

So first thing you want to do is gather your supplies, we frequented Officeworks for most of our supplies and we created an adorbs little Easter printable for the designs which you can downloadhere

The items we used were:

Crystal Clear Shrinky Dinks (you can grab a 10 pack herewe used a total of 1 sheet to make all of our tags, leaving 9 left over for other projects, score!)

Using the black Sharpie trace the designs onto a sheet of Shrinky Dinks

Colour in your designs, we flipped the sheet over to get the 3-d effect from having the black outline raised up from the colour, this is totally optional, it’s just how we like to Shrinky Dink!

Then like normal, cut them out and pop them coloured side up on a baking tray and into an oven that’s been pre heated to 160 celsius and watch the oven to see when the designs have finished shrinking, they will bend and curl while they are shrinking but when they flatten out again you know they are good to go.

Then it’s just a matter of using the sticky dots to attach the shrinky to the gift tag and writing out your message – we recommend using gold pen and ALL the puns! Who wouldn’t love getting one of these tied around a chocolate bunny at Easter time?…